The Bank (2001)

• Year: 2001
• Released: 06 Sep 2001
• Country: Australia
• Adwords: 9 wins & 21 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241223/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_bank
• Metacritics:
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Japanese
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Runtime: 104 min
• Writer: Brian Price, Mike Betar, Robert Connolly
• Director: Robert Connolly
• Cast: David Wenham, Anthony LaPaglia, Sibylla Budd
• Keywords: cigarette, first date, bank officer,

	6.6/10
	54/100
	61% – Critics
	71% – Audience

The Bank Storyline

“I’m like God but with a better suit,” declares Centabank CEO, Simon O’Reilly (Anthony LaPaglia) with pride. Welcome to the world of The Bank, ripe with avarice and corruption, where O’Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything.Enter Jim Doyle (David Wenham) a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock market. When he joins O’Reilly’s fold, he must first prove his loyalty to the “greed is good” ethos. Which way will he go? What does he have to hide?

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The Bank Movie Reviews

Better than most

The quality of films coming out of Australia always amazes me considering the size of their budgets compared to run-of-the-mill “blockbusters” that Hollywood lavishes millions on.

OK, you have to suspend belief a bit to accept that the caper that is the plot of “The Bank” could actually be pulled off — or could it? But what the hell, if you watch Hollywood films you suspended your belief a long time ago.

This film is a great example of Less is more. No car chases, nobody gets murdered, hardly any sex. All it has is good writing, good dialog, excellent acting, imaginative filming and special effects and music.

And Anthony Lapaglia is just one of the finest actors around these days. Altogether an enjoyable film.

Greed is good!

Greed is at the core of this film. It’s incredible how money can corrupt people to the point that it will make them do things that ultimately, they will live to regret.

It was a surprise to see this Australian film that only played a couple of weeks in New York. It’s a much better picture than some of the very highly regarded ones that came out just about the same time and are still around, while this one went back to Australia, probably.

The director, Robert Connelly presents us with a story that’s very plausible. In it, the greedy banker, played with fine assurance by Anthony LaPaglia, wants to be able to get rich with a scheme that is presented to him by the mysterious David Wenham.

Aside from some of the technical aspects of the financial world, it is very entertaining and very nicely acted by all the actors in it.

Revenge of the Nerds.

This is an Australian suspense thriller about a mathematician, Jim Doyle, who develops a new theory based on chaos analysis that will enable a user to predict just about anything. A senior banking executive, Simon O’Reilly, gets a hold of the news and hires Jim to work for them, to develop a system that will predict financial markets.

Jim is altruistic – he wants to predict market collapses so that regular people can react in time. Simon sees a way to get rich. Simon is also one of those Gordan Gecko types who sees himself as part of the new feudal lords of capitalism, a member of the elite whose duty he sees as crushing the opposition.

This is a pretty clever film and I want to be careful not to give away the ending. You can sort of see it coming, but the actor playing Jim, David Wenham, is so under control that he doesn’t give away a thing. You might recognize Wenham from his role as Faramir, Boromir’s brother in the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. His acting makes this film succeed.

Anthony LaPaglia plays the ruthless banker, Simon, and he manages to make himself hateful for the audience. Sibylla Budd also plays the love interest of Jim very well (she has a deliciously sly smile).

Short on elaborate production values, but the story and the acting make this film exciting and one I’d recommend.